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Top signals · Oct 1–2, 2026 · Updated Oct 2, 04:04 UTC
AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents
Claude-shaped science
Matthew Schwartz describes what happened when he stopped fighting Claude and allowed Claude to find “Claude-shaped” problems. This led him to build BootLoops, a toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science,... Context & related coverage →
Faynt: Scaling and Optimizing Policies for Competitive Melee
We introduce Faynt, a family of 10M- and 75M-parameter Transformer policies for Super Smash Bros. Melee, each controlling all 26 characters with a single checkpoint. After reinforcement learning (RL), the 10M wins 240... Context & related coverage →
DeepSeek effect? How China’s quant funds thrive amid tight regulatory scrutiny
Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT
We catch up with RLM first author Alex Zhang, MIT PhD, on Jev, PhD masxing, and the future of harnesses. Context & related coverage →
Presentation: Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI
The panelists discuss how production operations are evolving with AI, turning operational data into actionable insights for incident response. They explain how automation and new architectural practices help engineeri... Context & related coverage →
How to Build a Model Router in the Harness
How we built a model router into Open SWE's harness that cut median cost per coding task by 64% with no measurable drop in quality, and how to build your own. Context & related coverage →
Quoting Matthew Green
[...] Put these pieces together and you have the two halves of a worm: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that will carry the payload to the next agent. Agents in separately-isolated sandboxes discovered t... Context & related coverage →
Getting started with Claude Code mods
Mods are hooks that ship inside plugins and run inside your Claude Code session. Build one from an empty folder, then tour two larger mods. Context & related coverage →
Modal Clusters are generally available
Multi-node GPU clusters with RDMA, gang scheduled from Modal's shared capacity pool and billed by the second, behind a single decorator. Context & related coverage →
VM Sandboxes: Full computers for agents
VM Sandboxes are built for those who need to give their agents the power of a full computer. Context & related coverage →